The Blessed (Book 1)

157. Taking a Walk; Take the Initiative to Save People

After taking a noon nap, Ling Jingxuan kept his promise and went out for a walk with Yan Shengrui. Rarely having a chance to relax, in case someone who was not sensible enough jumped out to interrupt them, they chose that road they built themselves next to the half-saline land. All the way, those two were hand in hand, talking and laughing, walking and stopping now and then. It had been over a month, this was the first time they saw the full view of the whole village clearly.

“If trees are planted on both sides of the road, it will not be so hot in summer. After dinner, we can also take our children for a walk under the trees and increase parent-child interaction.”

July is hot dead weather, two people with wet clothes from sweat return leisurely and unavoidably were a little uncomfortable.

“If you want, we can hire a few people to go to Xiaogong Mountain to transplant some saplings some other day, wipe off your sweat, I really should have stayed in bed with you.”

Stopping behind a farm house, Yan Shengrui wiped the sweat off his face for him. Ling Jingxuan smiled, “That’s a good idea. But we can only talk about it after reclaiming the wasteland. At that time, workers would be a little cheaper. On such kind of weather, you’d feel hot even standing on the road doing nothing, let alone doing some hard work. If those workers all have sunstroke, shouldn’t we have to pay the medical fee for them?”

His words that were said using some kind of teasing tone amused Yan Shengrui. They smiled at each other. Now they were arriving at the market at the entrance of the village. Ling Jingxuan rolled his eyes and pulled him back to the road, “Let’s go to Laowang’s place to look around, I want to talk with him about the making of the jars thing.”

On hearing it was about work again, Yan Shengrui frowned, but soon smiled helplessly. So, it seemed there was nothing else they could do on such a weather.

“How many do you want this time?”

Pacing up his steps to catch up with him, Yan Shengrui asked gently. Look at that undisguised affection in his eyes. Though sometimes he complained about him neglecting him for his work, but actually he liked watching him so devoted in his work, and especially when he bickered and reasoned with the two little buns.

“Last time I ordered five hundred more, but those tiles we need for building the house were also made by Laowang, so he hasn’t delivered the goods, I am afraid he still hasn’t finished them. I am thinking of ordering five thousand more. Now we got more hands, so picking wild fruit, cleaning and decocting could be done at the same time. So, it won’t be a problem to make a few thousand jin in seven days.”

The two already came to Laowang’s booth without themselves even noticing as they walked and talked. But no one was inside. Thinking that he might be in the plant firing, they went to the direction of Zhao village. Zhao village was next door to Ling village. Laowang was adopted into his wife’s family. But his wife only had her mom, who was quite open-minded. Though he was adopted into his wife’s family, except that their big son was surnamed Zhao following his wife’s surname, the other kids were all surnamed Wang. Laowang was also a hardworking and honest man, who enjoyed a good name in Zhao village. Last time Ling Shengrui and Ling Jingxuan had ever come before, so they knew where it was, but…

Unexpectedly is, Laowang also wasn’t there. Only after asking the workers did they know that Laowang’s wife was delivering, so he was with his wife at home. Ling Jingxuan and Yan Shengrui meant to go home, but as the worker said their home was not far away and even said they could lead the way, so they could only follow them to go to Laowang’s home.

“Ahh… woo…”

Before they walked into that quadrangle courtyard, a woman’s screams at the top of her lungs came into their ears clearly. The one leading the way and Yan Shengrui both thought it was nothing. A woman giving birth, all like that, having some huge pains and the baby was out. But as a doctor, Ling Jingxuan frowned. Apparently the woman’s voice sounded weak and would pass out at any minute. If he guessed it right, Laowang’s wife was having a dystocia.